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TALIBAN: US ADJUSTING. BILL ROGGIO, FDD. HUSAIN HAQQANI, HUDSON INSTITUTE.

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🗓️ 8 April 2025

⏱️ 11 minutes

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TALIBAN:  US ADJUSTING. BILL ROGGIO, FDD. HUSAIN HAQQANI,  HUDSON INSTITUTE. 
1920 FORT RAMRUD, KHYBER PASS

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0:00.0

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0:06.8

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0:13.0

that'll soak you to the skin. By Monday, temperatures will rise slowly but surely reaching

0:18.7

their peak in the afternoon.

0:23.0

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0:28.7

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0:35.4

This is CBSI on the world.

0:37.1

I'm John Betts with Hesana Connie,

0:39.8

former ambassador from Pakistan to the United States, now at the Hudson Institute and Bill Rajau, the Foundation for the Defense of Democracy.

0:44.9

Bill, you've indicated for some days now that the lifting of the $10 million bounty on the

0:51.7

Hussain, on Sirajat and Haqane, the

0:55.4

man who is in the Kabul government

0:57.9

and also is a senior figure

0:59.8

in the so-called Haqani network

1:02.1

responsible for warmaking

1:04.1

against the United States and his allies

1:05.8

for many years. There's indication

1:07.5

that there's more coming.

1:09.8

And you

1:10.0

speculate, you observe, there's logic here for the U.S. moving to change its posture towards Kabul and recognize it?

1:18.7

How do you see this, Bill?

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